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The Basics, Starting Out
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<blockquote data-quote="Racemike" data-source="post: 1685188" data-attributes="member: 109106"><p>I agree that the cost of things for shooting and hunting has skyrocketed in the last 40 years. I'm older now still hunt have fewer rifles, down to 5. I don't have 5000 dollar guns with 3000 dollar scopes, nor 2000 dollar range finders. The way I have learned to get by this high dollar drain is first I buy a very good rifle factory like sako, kimber, browning. Then I make sure it's a caliber I can use for numerous game and distances and that's always going to be what a person likes. Then I go to work on the loading bench for couple months making different loads, bullets, primers. Believe me I still like reading about powders and bullets but a lot of the time some of same powders I was using 30 years ago still work great. I make loads that help make my rifle more accurate, mind you I'm just a hunter so accurate to me isn't what it might be for some of these people shooting 1000 yds. Most of mine will touch holes at 100 yds. Then I try to by the best scope I can afford usually around 1000 dollars I have had luck with Leopold, and Zeiss. I have trigger work done make sure it's bedded good. Now I rarely shoot over 400 yds. But it works well for me on pig, deer, elk.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Racemike, post: 1685188, member: 109106"] I agree that the cost of things for shooting and hunting has skyrocketed in the last 40 years. I’m older now still hunt have fewer rifles, down to 5. I don’t have 5000 dollar guns with 3000 dollar scopes, nor 2000 dollar range finders. The way I have learned to get by this high dollar drain is first I buy a very good rifle factory like sako, kimber, browning. Then I make sure it’s a caliber I can use for numerous game and distances and that’s always going to be what a person likes. Then I go to work on the loading bench for couple months making different loads, bullets, primers. Believe me I still like reading about powders and bullets but a lot of the time some of same powders I was using 30 years ago still work great. I make loads that help make my rifle more accurate, mind you I’m just a hunter so accurate to me isn’t what it might be for some of these people shooting 1000 yds. Most of mine will touch holes at 100 yds. Then I try to by the best scope I can afford usually around 1000 dollars I have had luck with Leopold, and Zeiss. I have trigger work done make sure it’s bedded good. Now I rarely shoot over 400 yds. But it works well for me on pig, deer, elk. [/QUOTE]
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